Adding a New Drain

Most of the rain water from the roof would poor out over the lawn. This would form a muddy, water logged area for most of the winter. As we are re-grading our lawn we also wanted to fix this issue. We dug a trench from where the water came out to the edge of the lawn area. We put a 3 inch perforated  pipe wrapped in a filter membrane in the trench. Then we covered this with gravel. I placed cardboard over the gravel to stop the soil washing down and then covered the cardboard with the Sand compost mix. We also extended the stone shore down to where the new grate is located. Eventually this grate will be in the lawn.

If you look along the trench you will see that it gets deeper in the middle. This is because the grounds is higher there. Now that the drain is in I will re-grade the lawn so it is not raised in the middle.

The black pipe is the new drain, the white pipe is used to drain the house foundation.